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Originally Posted by transplant99
Even if he was fired today...tell me what difference you believe it would make when he will still have the same collection of soft and never ready to start a game players?
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2016-17 Bruins fired Julien on Feb 7th.
To that point they were averaging 2.54 G/GP and 2.64 GA/GP
After bringing in Butch Cassidy, who decided to open up the offense for defensemen, they were averaging 3.36 G/GP and 2.29 GA/GP. This season they are averaging 2.93 G/GP and 2.52 GA/GP. PDO is a thing, but there's also the idea that you make your own bounces. Most of us don't see Gulutzan capable of making a team make their own bounces(offensively), whereas Hartley was exactly that (offensively).
Even if you think Julien and Gulutzan are good coaches, it's entirely possible they are good coaches for a bygone era, and we need a coach for today.
Now tell me, if a coach could hypothetically increase our G/GP by 0.4, would our team not be better? We could go from ~24th in goal scoring to ~10th. That's not insignfiicant.